Last chance to book a place at our annual conference: The 13th annual NPW conference is being held in Sheffield on 23 February 2016. We pride ourselves on providing a value for money experience for people working in the Pubwatch world. Pubwatch members pay just Â£20. Price includes lunch and a useful NPW folder.
Book now for the networking event of the year at https://pubwatchonline.co.uk/nationalpubwatch/

NEW NATIONAL PUBWATCH FILM IN PRODUCTION

In late January actors and crew descended on the Fullers George IV pub in Chiswick High Road to start work on a new instructional film for NPW which is being produced for us by Mini Mammoth Films...(read more here)

NATIONAL PUBWATCH INITIATIVE

WESTMINSTER STREET PASTORS - NEW YEAR'S EVE

National Pubwatch is currently sponsoring the training of volunteers with Westminster Street Pastors. This update has been compiled for us by Brian Arnott at Ascension Trust...(read more here)

So, 2 weeks after the New Years Eve Central London event, Westminster Street Pastors were back on patrol last weekend. Teams patrolled in Victoria and the Strand, and in Soho and all areas in between, while a third team patrolled the central London Thames bridges in support of the Metropolitan Police Service Suicide Prevention Strategy...(read more here)

PRISON SENTENCES AND BANS

MAN JAILED FOR MANSLAUGHTER AFTER KILLING PARTY-GOER OVER SPILLED DRINK

A man who punched and killed a fellow party-goer over an altercation about a spilled drink has been jailed for manslaughter...(read more here)

MASKED RAIDER JAILED AFTER PUB BREAK-IN

A man was jailed for three years after Grimsby Crown Court heard the career criminal, who had 46 convictions for burglary, was tackled by a plucky pub landlord who spotted masked intruders in the bar after the alarm sounded...(read more here)

An entire army regiment has been banned from Salisburyâ€™s biggest nightclub and two popular bars over concerns about soldiersâ€™ behaviour...(read more here)

SIX PEOPLE BARRED FROM ALL PUBS IN THORNBURY AND ALVESTON FOLLOWING VIOLENCE

Six people have been barred from all pubs in Thornbury and Alveston following violence over the two weekends before Christmas. Both incidents occurred outside the White Lion in Thornbury, as drinkers became violent when being thrown out of the pub...(read more here)

PERSONS WANTED

THUGS LAUNCH SAVAGE CHRISTMAS DAY ATTACK ON DUDLEY DOOR STAFF

Detectives in Dudley are searching for a group of thugs who launched a terrifying attack on door staff after being refused entry to a nightclub in the early hours of Christmas Day...(read more here)

INITIATIVES

CONTRIBUTE TO SAFE SPACE RESEARCH

Pubwatch has been asked to contribute to a study measuring the effectiveness of â€˜Safe Spaceâ€™ and â€˜Safe Busâ€™ type schemes in the night-time economy...(read more here)

PUBS JOIN FORCES TO BREAK A WORLD RECORD

In early February thousands of pub quizzers, pub regulars, friends and family will be sitting down in their local to answer the first in a series of questions of an identical pub quiz, in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for the largest multi venue quiz...(read more here)

ST HELENS PUBS AND BARS SIGN UP TO FESTIVE DESIGNATED DRIVER SCHEME

Police in the town centre have teamed up with pub landlords and bar owners to help cut down on drink driving as the festive season gets underway...(read more here)

STENCILLED PAVEMENT SIGNS TO STOP PROXY PURCHASERS IN THEIR TRACKS

Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP) partners in Sutton-in-Ashfield in Nottinghamshire have come up with a novel way of deterring adults from buying alcohol on behalf of under-18s - by painting warnings on pavements outside off licences...(read more here)

WELLINGBOROUGH PUBWATCH DOOR STAFF TO WEAR BODY CAMERAS

Members of Wellingborough Pubwatch are to issue 20 body-worn cameras to door staff working at pubs and clubs in the town in an effort to reduce crime...(read more here)

NEW DRUGS SAFE SCHEME LAUNCHED WITH PUB WATCH MEMBERS IN TORFAEN AND BLAENAU GWENT

Gwent Police are now working with licensed premises in Torfaen and Blaenau Gwent to ensure their premises are drug free and a safer place for customers...(read more here)

ONE PUNCH CAMPAIGN GETS BOOST FROM COUNTY DURHAM PUBS

A campaign to halt social violence has won the backing of two Pubwatch schemes in the run up to Christmas. One Punch North East, launched by Maxine Thompson-Curl earlier this year, is receiving cash donations from the landlord support groups in Bishop Auckland and Crook last December...(read more here)

BARS URGED TO JOIN NEWLAND AVENUE PUBWATCH AFTER MASS BRAWL

Pubs and bars in Hull's popular Newland Avenue are to be invited to join a new Pubwatch scheme in the wake of a street brawl...(read more here)

OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

FABRIC NIGHTCLUB WINS APPEAL AGAINST USE OF SNIFFER DOGS AND ID SCANNERS

The iconic Farringdon nightspot has won an appeal after the security measures were ordered by Islington Council last December when the club narrowly avoided closure. The council wanted Fabric to be the first nightclub in London to use sniffer dogs after four drug-related deaths in three years...(read more here)

PUB LANDLORD SAYS POLICE WITHDRAWAL FROM PUBWATCH "BEGGARS BELIEF"

An Ipswich pub landlord has criticised Suffolk police for pulling out of a crime reduction scheme which has been praised by the Home Secretary, Theresa May. Adrian Smith, landlord at the Dove Street Inn and Chairman of Ipswich Pubwatch, said it "beggared belief" that the police had withdrawn from the scheme citing Data Protection laws, because other forces elsewhere in the country were still running successful schemes...(read more here)

NATIONAL GUIDE

NEW QUICK GUIDE: GAMING MACHINES IN PUBS

A new gaming machine quick guide for publicans has been published by the Gambling Commission...(read more here)